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I bought a few of these from amazon.com last year :

The products listed in the OP are obvious fakes which is very common with storage sold online.

The above Kingston drives are now less than $100 - these used to cost $1000 and up only 5 years or so ago and they were bulkier as well.

I've got a few of these and they perform well.

I would like to see a comparison for the month of Decembers Covid death figures each year from 2020 to 2023 inclusive to see if it's getting better or worse.

Comparing December with November is nonsense.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Surely you can't be a good person if you're not tempted to do bad things and resist.

If you're considering doing bad things but 'resist' as you put it then that in no way makes you a 'good' person.

It makes you a bad person who hasn't yet acted.

Nope, no gossip in the Thai language facebook groups either.

6 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

 So your comments above regarding your symptoms would seem to be based on your guess that what you have is COVID...

 

And not on any real confirmation that what you have is actually COVID -- as opposed to a cold, the flu or who knows what else.

 

Which renders you judgments above about the severity of your symptoms pretty much irrelevant to the discussion here of actual COVID.

 

Nonsense, it's anecdotal at best - for all you know I could be making it up so you shouldn't rely too much on anything you read here.

There is currently a massive wave of covid sweeping across Thailand since a few weeks ago - lets face it - if anyone gets any kind of ailment where the symptoms match pretty much exactly then it's highly likely to be a part of the same huge wave of illness spreading everywhere, especially on a night like New Years Eve.

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I don't see anywhere in your above post where you indicated that you actually tested positive for COVID -- as opposed to coming down with any number of other possible maladies.

 

So what? I couldn't be bothered to do a test. Those tests are not very reliable anyway.

My symptoms started late at night on January 3rd, coughing with a runny nose.

This is something I definitely caught on New Years Eve, I hadn't left the house for at least a week prior to NYE nor after. The Mrs then proceeded to develop a 'cold' about 3 days after me which suggests I caught it on NYE and she didn't, she caught it around Jan 6 - we were not in the same places for the entire night, I met up with her a few hours after I went out for the evening.

So from observations I caught it on day 1, became symptomatic on day 4, the Mrs then became mildly symptomatic on day 6

Compared to when I was last infected in summer 2023 this one lacks any kind of fatigue, malaise / tiredness. In fact I feel normal apart from the runny nose and coughing which appears to be clearing the bronchial tubes of mucus so it has a productive cough and I'm taking an over the counter mucolytic (Ambroxol), the cough has now mostly gone but occasionally returns for a good 10 minutes at a time a few times a day but it's on its way out compared to last weeekend.

My father has the same thing in the UK right now - he's had it worse than me and he did a test which tested positive. Same symptoms but with tiredness.

I still believe this is on its journey to becoming classed as the 5th known cold caused by human coronaviruses but it's not quite there just yet.

To put things into perspective - I have had worse colds in the past, they were not flu (that's much worse).

On 3/31/2004 at 1:38 PM, mike100 said:

Was starting to think that I was a suspect until then.

You absolutely were.

1 hour ago, treetops said:

 

My understanding is it goes both ways.

If you have a Thai TIN then are they notifying the Revenue Department of Thailand from a Thai bank?

For sure if you have a TIN or not but don't tell your home countries bank then they're not sending anything anywhere as they won't know.

2 hours ago, eyeman said:

If you are allowed to choose any two arbitrary date points to support your hypothesis then sure, but that also applies to basically anything else tradable in the world. You might not be able to hear the sentiment on your rocket to the moon but down here on earth all but a selective echo chamber refer to the whole industry as clown money and all derivatives as sh1tco1ns. It's just a number of days to the next exchange fails no doubt and the flood of tears begin..

Well today is a kind of special day for Bitcoin if you follow it due to an ETF approval deadline in the US.

In the future a huge proportion of Bitcoin will be traded on NASDAQ / NYSE and others assuming todays announcement goes the way people think it will.

Officially one ETF either needs to be approved or rejected today (ARK) but there's about another 10 which have until March for approval - reported SEC movements all point towards them being approved at the same time which the good people over at ARK are probably not too pleased with - after all they got their ducks in a row first.

Still - if 10 ETFs launch this week / next week for Bitcoin - everything changes and it's the beginning of a new era.

TODAY!

3 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

This a forum of mostly older people and from what little I read you seem to be instigating fear in many for something that probably won't effect anyone.

 

Are you bound by some contract to keep posting, i think not. So please stop playing the savior of mankind.

Nonsense, and we're not all old and retired so there's a lot of stuff that will apply to a lot of people - not you perhaps but it will to me and it's important.

So fack off and leave him alone.

Lol, I've been getting facebook ads for the various types of cannabis for some time now.

You're supposed to 'transfer' your entry and recent extension stamp over to the new passport at immigration but you can also take both the old and new passports with you when you leave.

I last used the two passport method some time ago - like 13 years ago or something, since then I had another new passport and did the transfer at immigration during the covid lockdown periods.

1 hour ago, treetops said:

 

It's more detail than an end of year balance and it applies to anyone deemed a "Reportable Person".  If (and I think it's unlikely) Thailand decide you need a TIN, then you become a "Reportable Person".

Yeah perhaps, I think they might also report account throughput but can't remember for sure, was a while back when I looked at it in any detail.

There's a lot of people who seem to think that whole transaction level bank statements are sent automatically - that's not what happens.

There was also something different about the volume of the account and how it's treated, if you have got like less than a million (dollars I think) in or going through your foreign account in a single year then it's treated differently to the big guys.

But what exactly are you talking about here? Thailand sending details to your 'home country' or your home countrys bank sending details to Thailand?

6 minutes ago, treetops said:

Both countries are participants in the Common Reporting Standard which means an annual transfer of data detailing bank account activity.

Once a year, account balances on accounts at end of year, now this is the important bit this will happen where you have told them that you're a Thai tax resident.

If you have a bank account sitting in England with an English address on it like many of us do then they're not sending anything to anyone, ever.

5 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Either the guys at the central bank are complete morons, or the inflation figures are, at best, flawed, and at worst, bogus.

Those two aren't mutually exclusive, they could quite easily both be true

15 hours ago, ballpoint said:

Now, when it comes to the new law / directive, like everyone else's comments on this, and the numerous other threads on this topic, this is my informed opinion only.

Interesting that they seem to take a 'last in, first out' approach to the foreign account.

I can't see them returning to the old style system but even if they do I guess simply paying whatever they deem due will get rid of any restrcition.

I read elsewhere that there's something like a 3 year backlog of audits - are people supposed to wait 3 years and travel nowhere?

For me it's going to be a very simple calculation, zero tax paid anywhere else so all remittances are taxable if I stay for more than 180 days and get a tax id.

I will then pay whatever is due but I'm going to send a massively reduced amount of money in order to control how much I pay.

15 hours ago, NZAMBOY said:

the way i see it, the banks will hold back 15% of our offshore deposit and we'll have to file in order to have it returned

Nonsense

8 minutes ago, In Full Agreement said:

 

How many coins did you get  after you sold your house and bought coins?

 

Perhaps you would like an audited statement of his account?

Why? Are you looking for people to rob?

That's the first 'vibe' I get when someone asks a question like this.

6 hours ago, Orient Express said:

Exactly.

 

The same article states: "It comes after the governemnt [sic] introduced a series of relaxations on booze sales. In 2022, it lifted a five-decade-long ban on alcoholic beverage sales in the afternoon between 2 and 5pm."

Yeah, that didn'thappen did it. I went to stock up on Cognac a few weeks back and the whole alcohol section at Gourmet Market was closed off during the prohibition hours.

Not planning on drinking any of the stuff for days as I already had some left I couldn't help but feel the rule is somehwat returded.

It is not easy to find information about this and why it came into being. I have been looking myself.

24 minutes ago, Mike Lister said:

I'm not a lawyer, I suspect you aren't either.

Correct, it's going to be interesting once the lawyers do get hold of this though. However I feel that won't happen until well inside 2025.

16 minutes ago, Mike Lister said:

Once again, a new law vs an operational interpretation, I think people are grasping at straws by trying to argue this point.

Not really, the law still stands.

The law if I remember correctly is very specific about this subject, it's not some little oversight or loophole, it was addressed directly. Zero taxation from prior years.

Signed. Sealed. Delivered.

To change a law requires a vote in parliament and there hasn't been a vote, not yet anyway.